DANCE OF THE ROBE Lyrics
Soundtrack: Aida (complete libretto) Lyrics
DANCE OF THE ROBE Text
AIDA
It's knowing what they want of me that scares me
It's knowing having followed that I must lead
It's knowing that each person there compares me
To those in my past whom I now succeed
But how can whatever I do for them now
Be enough
Be enough
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you
Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish
But nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!
NEHEBKA
You robe should be golden, your robe should be perfect
Instead of this ragged concoction of thread
But may you be moved by its desperate beauty
To give us new life for we'd rather be dead
Than live in the squalor and shame of the slave
To the dance!
To the dance!
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you
All we ask is a lifetime of
Service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish
But nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida! Aida!
AIDA
I know expectations are wild and almost
Beyond my fulfillment but they won't hear
A word of a doubt or see signs of weakness
My nigh on impossible duty is clear
If I can rekindle my ancestors' dreams
It's enough
It's enough
AIDA
It's enough
NUBIANS
Aida!
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida! Aida!
AIDA
It's enough
NUBIANS
Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah,ah
(When the song ends, the NUBIAN give AIDA her robe and she places it on her
head. She is escorted onto the back of another NUBIAN and is carried around
the camp. They exit.)
AIDA
It's knowing what they want of me that scares me
It's knowing having followed that I must lead
It's knowing that each person there compares me
To those in my past whom I now succeed
But how can whatever I do for them now
Be enough
Be enough
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you
Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish
But nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!
NEHEBKA
You robe should be golden, your robe should be perfect
Instead of this ragged concoction of thread
But may you be moved by its desperate beauty
To give us new life for we'd rather be dead
Than live in the squalor and shame of the slave
To the dance!
To the dance!
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you
All we ask is a lifetime of
Service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish
But nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida! Aida!
AIDA
I know expectations are wild and almost
Beyond my fulfillment but they won't hear
A word of a doubt or see signs of weakness
My nigh on impossible duty is clear
If I can rekindle my ancestors' dreams
It's enough
It's enough
AIDA
It's enough
NUBIANS
Aida!
NUBIANS
Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida! Aida!
AIDA
It's enough
NUBIANS
Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah,ah
(When the song ends, the NUBIAN give AIDA her robe and she places it on her
head. She is escorted onto the back of another NUBIAN and is carried around
the camp. They exit.)
Aida (complete libretto)
Soundtrack Lyrics for Musical, 1990
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›THE PAST IS ANOTHER LAND Lyrics
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›ANOTHER PYRAMID Lyrics
›HOW I KNOW YOU Lyrics
›MY STRONGEST SUIT Lyrics
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›FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE (Reprise) Lyrics
›ENCHANTMENT PASSING THROUGH Lyrics
›AMNERIS' DRESSING ROOM Lyrics
›STRONGEST SUIT (Reprise) Lyrics
›THE NUBIAN SLAVE CAMP Lyrics
›DANCE OF THE ROBE Lyrics
›THE NILE'S EDGE Lyrics
›ELABORATE LIVES Lyrics
›THE GOD'S LOVE NUBIA Lyrics
›STARSCAPE Lyrics
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›THE PRISON Lyrics
›EASY AS LIFE Lyrics
›THE WAR ROOM OF THE PALACE Lyrics
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›RADAMES' LETTER Lyrics
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›I KNOW THE TRUTH Lyrics
›AMNERIS' DRESSING ROOM Lyrics
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